David Stinson wrote:

-=jd=- wrote:
Possibly, but the hams tracking the signal thought differently:

"...Langer suggests that the origin was a contractor`s employee
having having a little fun on the radio. Obviously his or her
superiors got the message that ham radio operators do not consider
interference to their spectrum to be something to enjoy..."

If so, the employee may have committed the ultimate sin: Having fun on
company time.

Having been in just exactly that kind of job,
I can tell you without question that this is utter bull****.
No way a contract employee is going to be doing this for
as long as it went on without oversight, not to mention
making toast of his job and going to *jail* for misappropriation
of government equipment; that just did not happen.
This is a B.S. cover story, regardless of what AceHole thinks.
D.S.

Who ever said it was 'government equipment'? The place where the transmitter was
found was a private company as far as I am aware of, and located on a Native
American reservation.

dxAce
Michigan
USA